Andrew McCormack – ‘Terra Firma‘ (Ubuntu UBU123. Album review by Mike Collins) Pianist Andrew McCormack has been expansive in his musical excursions since his return from Brooklyn a few years ago, notably […]
Andrew McCormack – ‘Terra Firma’
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Alex Paxton – ‘Illoli-pop’
Alex Paxton – Illoli-pop ( nonclassical. nonclss054. Album review by Tony Dudley-Evans) Alex Paxton is a young composer and improvising trombonist who mostly works with contemporary classical ensembles, but whose music is, […]
Nu Civilisation Orchestra – Joni Mitchell’s ‘Hejira’ & ‘Mingus’ (2022 EFG LJF)
Nu Civilisation Orchestra – Joni Mitchell’s Hejira & Mingus (Queen Elizabeth Hall, 17 November. Live review by Alison Bentley) “An evening of Joni Mingus,” said conductor and musical director Peter Edwards. His […]
Take 6 at Pizza Express Holborn (2022 EFG LJF
Take 6 (Pizza Express Holborn. 17 November 2022. Review by Lavender Sutton) Two Nights at an unusual location: the a cappella masters Take 6 brought their show to Holborn Pizza Express Live […]
Jazz Sabbath at Pizza Express Soho (2022 EFG LJF)
Jazz Sabbath (Pizza Express Soho (2nd house) 16 November. Review by AJ Dehany) Adam Wakeman’s incendiary 2020 documentary “Before Black Sabbath: there was Jazz Sabbath”(LINK) broke a story that shocked the worlds […]
‘Indo-Jazz Fusions Revisited’ (2022 EFG LJF)
Indo-Jazz Fusions Revisited (Spice of Life, 16 November 2022, Review by Peter Slavid) Jazz in Britain today is a fabulous melange of influences from African, Asian, Caribbean and European styles as well […]
ChicagoXLondon at the Barbican (2022 EFG LJF)
Chicago X London — Jeff Parker, Ben LaMar Gay, Angel Bat Dawid, Alabaster DePlume (Barbican. 13 November 2022. Live review by AJ Dehany) You could call 2022 the “Chicago Edition” of the […]
The Egyptian Jazz Projekt at Grand Junction (2022 EFG LJF)
The Egyptian Jazz Projekt (Grand Junction, Paddington, EFG London Jazz Festival, 15 November 2022. Live Review by Rachel Coombes) Founded in 2015 by the jazz vocalist Ahmed Harfoush, the Egyptian Jazz Projekt […]
Erol Pekcan/Tuna Ötenel/ Kudret Öztoprak – ‘Jazz Semai’ (rec. 1978)
Erol Pekcan/Tuna Ötenel/ Kudret Öztoprak – Jazz Semai (Nova Müzik .Album review by Francesco Martinelli) Forty-four years after its original release, the “Jazz Semai” album, widely considered the beginning of Turkish jazz, […]
Jasper Høiby Planet B at the Purcell Room (2022 EFG LJF)
Jasper Høiby Planet B (Purcell Room, EFG London Jazz Festival, 13 November 2022. Live Review by Patrick Hadfield) A foggy (Sun)day in London town might have felt like an unlikely time to engage […]
Dianne Reeves (2022 EFG LJF)
Dianne Reeves (Queen Elizabeth Hall. 13 November 2022. Live review by Alison Bentley) It was the end of the tour for US singer Dianne Reeves and there was a feeling of irrepressible […]
Jazz Nominees for the 2023 GRAMMYs
The GRAMMYs ceremony (the 65th) will take place on 5 February. Here are the nominees, first in the jazz categories, and then some jazz related names in other categories from a very […]
RYMDEN at the Queen Elizabeth Hall (2022 EFG LJF)
RYMDEN (Queen Elizabeth Hall, EFG London Jazz Festival, 12 November 2022. Live Review by Patrick Hadfield) RYMDEN are Bugge Wesseltoft (piano), Dan Berglund (bass) and Magnus Öström (drums); it’s twenty-five years since Wesseltoft made his name with his […]
Heidi Vogel sings Sarah Vaughan (Jazz Café POSK, 26 November)
Vocalist/songwriter Heidi Vogel, together with musical director Ivo Neame, has prepared a very special evening of songs to celebrate Sarah Vaughan. It will premiere at Jazz Café POSK on Saturday 26 November […]
Henry Threadgill’s Zooid and Anthony Braxton New Quartet (2022 EFG LJF)
Henry Threadgill’s Zooid and Anthony Braxton New Quartet (Barbican, 13 November 2022 Review by Peter Slavid) It’s received wisdom that avant-garde jazz appeals only to a small audience. That was definitely not […]
